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Edico Dragen Clinical Genomics Information System

Nov 16, 2017

Edico Genome has introduced the Dragen Clinical Genomics Information System, software designed to help clinical laboratories develop sequencing-based tests. Dragen CGIS is meant to integrate Edico's various somatic, germline, joint genotyping, and RNA gene fusion pipelines with various other systems Edico has partnered with, including Fabric Genomics' Opal Clinical genome interpretation software.

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